 
WEBINARSSPN offers a yearly live webinar series that provides timely year-round education on issues impacting our profession. From immunizations to implementing DEI into your practice, these webinars keep you apprised of how the latest trends in healthcare may affect you and provide the the chance to engage in dialogue with the presenter. Once the live webinar has taken place, webinar recordings are uploaded to the Online Education Center, allowing you the flexibility to earn contact hours on your schedule.
Cultural Humility in Working with Gender Diverse Youth Instructor: Bianca Salvetti, DNP, CNS, CPNP-PC In the past 5 years, the number of adolescents and young adults (AYA) who identify as gender diverse has doubled however most nurses receive minimal if any education on caring for LGBTQ+. Historically invisibility and discrimination of this population has contributed to significant health disparities, including suicidality, homelessness, and substance use. This session will explore best practices in working with gender diverse youth. The audience will learn basic language, medical management, and interventions to creating an affirming space. This webinar is provided by the DEI Task Force.
COVID 19: Holistic Health Impacts on Children and their Families Instructor: Jessica L. Peck DNP, APRN, CPNP-PC, CNE, CNL, FAANP, FAAN This webinar will provide a comprehensive, holistic look at the health impacts of COVID-19 across the pediatric care continuum while exploring direct ramifications for children and their families. Nurses will be engaged and equipped to deliver care that optimizes pediatric health.
Instructor: Susan Givens Bell, DNP, MABHA, RNC-NIC This webinar will provide an overview of the principles of antibiotic stewardship through a review relevant historical perspective, exploration of current evidence on the importance of antibiotic stewardship and effective strategies to promote and apply the principles antibiotic stewards, and description of how we can employ strategies now and in the future.
Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa: How to Diagnose, Ways to Treat, and When to Triage Instructor: Kyla Bennett, LCSW, LSCSW During 2020 -2022 there has been a rise in children and teens seen in the ER with mental health problems. This has also included a rise in eating disorders. Attend this webinar to learn about comorbidities, evidence-based treatments and strategies to assist the patients and families. Eating disorders are among the deadliest mental illnesses, second only to opioid overdose. Attend this webinar to learn strategies to identify and assist your patients with eating disorders.
Instructor: Rhonda Cooper MSN, RN, NEA-BC SPN is committed to defining and delineating how pediatric nursing is different from general nursing practice. This webinar will describe the new SPN Pediatric Nursing Excellence Model, its importance, how to implement the model in your current practice as well as innovative future uses.
Instructor: Surlina Asamoa, MSN, MHA, RN, CCM & Laura F. Watson, MSN, RN, CDFT Description: Nurse educators, hospital leaders, clinical staff, and bedside nursing will all benefit from attending this webinar. When disparities in hair care hygiene are identified in healthcare settings, there are limited resources available to guide organizations and institutions in examining their current practices and identifying opportunities to provide more equitable care. This webinar will share best practices from organizations who have successfully implemented hair care equity programs and will provide necessary resources for health care organizations and institutions to initiate this work in their facilities. This four part webinar series was developed with collaboration of the DEI task force.
Wednesday, December 14, 2022, 12:30 pm CT Nurse educators, hospital leaders, clinical staff, and bedside nursing will all benefit from attending this webinar. As the nation navigates a pediatric behavioral health crisis, effective tools and information should be shared amongst health care professionals to ensure optimal care for this patient population is provided. Learn how a hospital created the Behavioral Response Team, the roles within the department, crisis management and the new model of proactive care provided in non-psychiatric settings.
QPR- Suicide Prevention for Children Instructor: Tanner Funk DNP, RN This presentation will have a specific focus on reviewing the critical area of suicide prevention by implementing the Question, Persuade, and Referral process. QPR is an emergency mental health intervention for suicidal persons. This course will also provide education on how to identify, assess, and interrupt the crisis and direct that person to the proper care. This presentation would specifically benefit those healthcare providers who work with children in all areas of health care as well as legal guardians and parents. This presentation is particularly important now as there is a striking rise in suicide rates among children and there is an immediate need for education on how to best end this disturbing trend.
Supporting the Grieving Child and Family Instructor: David J Schonfeld, MD, FAAP This session will describe the distinction between trauma and grief and provide practical advice on how to support grieving children and their families. A range of topics will be covered, including what not to stay, considerations related to grief across different cultures, identifying and addressing guilt, misconceptions and literal misinterpretations, children’s conceptual understanding of death and the unique challenges for grieving children with intellectual and neurodevelopmental disabilities. Free resources for addressing these issues and many others from the Coalition to Support Grieving Students will be shared.
State Advocacy - A Grassroots Toolkit for Gender Affirming Care Panelists: Niki Fogg, Laura Kubin, Michaela Lewis, Michelle Cole, Maria Panayotou, Heidi McNeely
Wednesday, August 31, 2022, 12:00 pm CT Legislation seeking to ban or limit gender-affirmation care for minors has begun to crop up—and make progress—in many state legislatures. Any disruption to healthcare access, regardless of gender status, creates the potential for significant harm. Policies that impose deliberate barriers to gender-affirming care targets the physical and mental health of minors seeking this care. Research shows that denying or limiting minors’ access to gender-affirming care can have significant health implications that may result in anxiety, depression, and suicide.
Proactive and Supportive Strategies to Promote Emotional Safety Instructor: Jenaya Gordon, MA, CCLS, NCC Healthcare experiences can shape how children respond in medical settings. this webinar will offer participants practical skills and strategies to promote emotional safety, to support children during times of distress and meet the child’s unique needs. Families/caregivers who may not be eligible or cannot afford future counseling. Nurses do not have the training to manage these patients they encounter. Nurses need the knowledge to mange these patients while they are temporarily in their care
Unlocking the Teenage Brain: Understanding the Neuroscience Behind Teenage Behavior Instructor: Kimberly A. Hinman, PhD Individual counseling may be cost prohibitive for many patients/families. Often the RNs on inpatient acute settings need tools to help with the adolescent patients and their families/caregivers who may not be eligible or cannot afford future counseling. Nurses do not have the training to manage these patients they encounter. Nurses need the knowledge to mange these patients while they are temporarily in their care.
Eating Disorders: “Why so Scary?” Instructor: Angela Kinstler, MSN, APRN, PMHNP-BC, CNL The webinar session will cover an in depth understanding on how to recognize signs and symptoms of an eating disorder, the evidenced-based medical and psychological treatment for eating disorders and how to communicate with these patients and their families. This presentation reviews the critical area of trauma-informed care and how it is vital to all health care workers to have a fundamental understanding of how this process works and how it can directly affect our patient care population in our health system. Hospitals across the U.S. are currently experiencing high volumes of patients with acute behavioral needs. Often, nurses in the inpatient setting are the first staff members to respond to agitated patients. Current nursing education does not usually include training on de-escalation and managing the escalated patient. This offering will help provide insight and training to nurses who may encounter acutely escalated patients and strategies to help reduce escalation, thereby decreasing the likelihood of patient and staff injury. Takeaways include de-escalation strategies. Nurses are experiencing burnout at unprecedented rates during these uncertain times. In a 2020 study, nurses reported the following issues to be of concern: limited supplies, increased stress levels, workload, risk of personal illness, bullying, and lack of organizational preparedness for the increased influx of patients. This webinar will provide the participant with strategies to control and support wellbeing. Participants will create a plan for self-care that includes new wellbeing strategies or interventions.
An Update on Psychiatric Medications in Pediatrics
Emotion Coaching: How to Support Both Teenagers and Parents to Manage Problematic Behavior
Are you looking for inspiration to create valuable virtual clinical experiences? Look no further; this webinar provides you with strategies to engage students using an example of a highly interactive unfolding case study. Overcoming obstacles and virtual etiquette are also covered. Pediatric COVID-19 Pharmacotherapy Sponsored By: The Clinical Nurse Specialist SIG Understanding the Prevention of COVID
The Journey of Virtual Education: From Classroom, to Practice to Patient Care
Leadership Principles and the Holidays, Lessons Learned; Really?
Child First Techniques
SPN Pediatric Nurses Week Panel: How Our Nurses Overcame Challenges and Implemented Innovative Strategies during the COVID Pandemic
How Do We Solve A Problem Like Gun Injury: A Pediatrician’s Perspective
From Exhausted to Extraordinary: Strategies to Reverse Nurse Burnout
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